Hi *,
As I'm sure some of you are aware, Haskell.org recently had
reliability problems with its virtualization host, an EX40 machine
located on Hetzner.
We dealt with it (for the most part), but a part of this was actually
migrating servers to a new provider to alleviate I/O load on the host
system.
As I mentioned last year, we've gotten support from Rackspace for
Haskell.org. In particular, this weekend we moved ghc.haskell.org to
Rackspace. This comes with nice amounts of dedicated bandwith and more
resources that should last a long time.
I plan on migrating Hackage to a new dedicated server this week. Me
and John hope to migrate www to Rackspace by the end of this week,
hopefully. These are the 3 servers located on the EX40 server, Rock.
Furthermore, we have an older server, the one running
lambda.haskell.org and community.haskell.org, running with Hetzner
too. I think we can migrate these quickly as well.
This means that Rock, the EX40 server, will now be effectively unused.
And we will move the old servers too. So both of these can be shut
down, and we don't have to pay for them! That's a lot of money saved!
We'll also be doing some other things:
- We'll be splitting the mailing system to a separate server, mail.haskell.org
- We'll be moving the DNS nameservers, as I said in my last email.
- I'll probably clean up the DNS entries, and we'll be able to add
AAAA records for all the servers now.
- We'll be shutting down several services, like
- trac.haskell.org (unmaintained, spammed, mostly unused). See the
discussion last month about this.
- rt.haskell.org (we're using and suggest
https://phabricator.haskell.org for new issues)
- The wiki will move to a new server, wiki.haskell.org, and will
still serve as the homepage for a little bit.
- Then we'll deploy http://new-www.haskell.org as www.haskell.org,
and redirect things to wiki.haskell.org where necessary.
- We'll move the downloads for the Haskell Platform to a new server
so Mark can upload them there.
So, what does everyone think about this? Is there anything I'm
forgetting? We can hopefully get this done in the next few weeks if
the admin team just pitches in a few hours here and there.
--
Regards,
Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
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